Building OOCD -- error: jimtcl not found

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My apologies in advance for a dumb noob question! What’s worse is… I ALREADY SOLVED THIS ONCE, but on a different PC…

Anyway, I downloaded the latest snapshot of OOCD, and ran the following:

git init

./bootstrap

git init submodule

git submodule update

./configure

…and…

configure: error: jimtcl not found, run git submodule init and git submodule update.

I think I remember the last time I did this, that the git init submodule and git submodule update commands would spit out text when I did them… maybe the update even downloaded something? This time, the update command returns absolutely nothing, but git init submodule did say that it created an empty submodule. I also think that I remember I needed to install another package from Synaptic the last time this happened (I had git-core but not git… but then I was on Ubuntu and now I am using PCLOS, which doesn’t have the same entries in its repo).

The problem is that I know absolutely zero about this software (git), so I am just copy pasting commands I’ve seen posted online.

Can anyone suggest anything I should try? Am I retarded or what?

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SOLVED –

For some reason that I am unsure of, the source had to be pulled from the repository by GIT. Downloading it as a tar.gz and then doing the steps I mentioned above fails to pull in anything for JimTCL, and of course the configure script blows up when it finds that folder empty.

When I pull it from the repository using GIT, everything looks almost exactly the same as above, except that it actually downloads JimTCL, and everything builds normally.

Anyway, I am now debugging code on my little eval board (an STM32VLDISCOVERY) with GDB + OOCD, and everything looks to be working! Woohoo!

:smiley: